Austerity
Ben Wray: May’s demise may just be the end of the beginning for the Conservative Party’s decline
Ben Wray of CommonSpace analyses what Theresa May’s resignation may mean for her own fractious party Read here
Corruption
Environment
RT: Bayer, Dow, L’Oreal using potentially harmful chemicals illegally – investigation
More than 650 companies are breaking European chemical safety laws, according to an investigation from German environmental group BUND. As a result, potentially harmful chemicals can be found in food, cosmetics, and toys. Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – International Regulatory Cooperation and the Public Good
Regulation gets a bad name in much of the world today; business lobbies have successfully equated it in many people’s minds with just so much “red tape”. But the need for stronger, and more precautionary, […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka: How UK regulators have covered up corruption and fraud
Corporate cover-ups go right to the top, writes accounting expert Professor Prem Sikka. Read here
Corruption
Wouter Veenendaal – Malta: How Smallness Produces Clientelism, Polarisation, Record Turnout and Corruption
Malta, a EU member, is considered a mafia state. Even the past commissioners it has sent to the EU tend to be notoriously corrupt. It is just another example of the political and moral rot […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Europe’s Two-Faced Authoritarian Right: ‘Anti-Elite’ Parties Serving Big Business Interests
If the more pessimistic projections are to be believed, authoritarian right-wing politicians will do well in the upcoming European Parliament elections, reflecting a surge in EU scepticism and disillusionment with establishment parties, many of whom […]
Corruption
Environmental Working Group: Jury Slams Bayer-Monsanto in Latest Roundup Cancer Trial
This is the difference between corrupt EU and German politicians and objective juries. Despite repeated warnings, which were suppressed, apparently also with illegal means (see this) Roundup has gotten literally away with murder – and […]
Corruption
eu observer: The non-accountable MEPs
Neo-liberalism can only flourish where democracy is reduced to a minimum, to folklore. The EU is neo-liberal. Thus the European Court of Justice will almost always decide against democracy. Read here
Corruption
European CEO: European banking regulator faces criticism after failing to take action on Danske Bank scandal
This is pretty much par for the course with regard to the EU and financial crime. What do laws and regulations matter, when it is a question of the intereests of financial trans-nationals. Read here
National Politics
Ben Margulies – Why Europe Should Worry about Thierry Baudet
The Netherlands’ Forum for Democracy (FvD) party, led by Thierry Baudet, has a radical-right populist slant but pitches it in the cultural language of the middle classes. The closer Baudet gets to this target group, […]